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Billionaire Paul Allen Finds Lost World War II Cruiser USS Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea
U.S. Naval Institute ^
| August 19, 2017
| Ben Werner
Posted on 08/19/2017 1:08:09 PM PDT by Riley
Seventy-two years after two torpedoes fired from a Japanese submarine sunk cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35), the ships wreckage was found resting on the seafloor on Saturday more than 18,000 feet below the Pacific Oceans surface.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.usni.org ...
TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: abomb; hiroshima; manhattanproject; shipwreck; usnavy; ussindianapolis; wwii
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To: Daffynition
Great story! Thanks for the link!
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posted on
08/19/2017 4:07:10 PM PDT
by
TTFlyer
To: rockrr
I never get tired of that soliloquy. It’s utterly haunting.
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posted on
08/19/2017 4:21:27 PM PDT
by
Riley
(The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
To: Riley
I used to clean a mans oil furnace who survived this. It strikes me as ironic now...his name was Phillipine. He was Italian.
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posted on
08/19/2017 4:29:39 PM PDT
by
RedwM
To: Riley
Was glad to read that the site, by law, is considered a gravesite and still U.S.N. property - which the location of must remain classified (though I doubt it will stay secret for long).
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posted on
08/19/2017 4:34:39 PM PDT
by
Spacetrucker
(George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
To: rockrr
Dreyfus face is priceless
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posted on
08/19/2017 4:46:35 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
(I am optimistic about the USA for the first time in a decade)
To: Chode
It had just been in dry dock just before the bomb run to Tinian island. It may gut have been repainted
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posted on
08/19/2017 4:51:49 PM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Flag_This
“So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.”
My 5th birthday.
To: righttackle44; laplata; Vaquero
Youre wrong.Pretty insensitive remark. The families, ex-shipmates, and many others still alive from the WWII era, remember the guys and officers from the Indianapolis.
You speak from youth, and from the leavings of the culture.
Almost everyone on the planet soon knew the story via that scene.
But historians and military buffs had and would have known the story without seeing Jaws.
____________
Including my late Dadwho flew a PBY Black Cat on open-ocean rescuesfamilies and shipmates seldom spoke of the war. My Dad only mentioned a reunion, where some he had rescued tearfully hugged him. It's certainly possible he might not have known the ships' names!
Any survivors "sensitive to my remarks" would be in their 90s today.
As a student of WWIIand although I knew of the USS Indianapolis tragedyI was reminded of the story from "Jaws", as it was recounted at a boating forumin 2012.
I actually never saw the movie...! .
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posted on
08/19/2017 5:38:52 PM PDT
by
Does so
(The Enlightened Left openly sacrifices "women and children first" on the altar of multiculturalism..)
To: Flag_This
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posted on
08/19/2017 5:46:22 PM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: Riley
A distant cousin of mine went down with Indianapolis. A first cousin, who was a member of the crew, got thrown in the brig for being drunk and rowdy and missed its final sailing. For the rest of his life, his nickname was Lucky.
To: Michael.SF.
Cool guy from Michigan. We birth ‘em tough. Especially in Ironwood where the snow never stops.
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posted on
08/19/2017 5:53:57 PM PDT
by
MarMema
To: Does so
You sure are wrong on that one. Doesn’t make you a bad person, just uninformed on this subject.
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posted on
08/19/2017 5:56:12 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
To: Wolfie
That movie “Men of Courage” made me angry. It was so bad, so PC that I simply couldn’t watch it, even though I purchased it to watch it. I didn’t make it past 15 minutes.
It made me angry, in the same way the movie “The Monuments Men” made me angry.
Both the story of the Indianapolis and the story of the Monuments Men were stories that America should know. And they Hollywood-ized them beyond all recognition.
They could have made good movies. But they injected all their stupid crap in both of them.
73
posted on
08/19/2017 6:11:04 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
To: Vaquero
i did not know that so you might be right, do you think they no longer thought the dazzle worked/was worth it?
now i gotta look for more pix
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posted on
08/19/2017 6:23:28 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: rlmorel
I could not finish that movie, it was disgustingly PC.
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posted on
08/19/2017 6:27:16 PM PDT
by
Molon Labbie
(Kim Jon Un. Entered the world stage Unopposed, led Unapologetically, died Unidentified.)
To: Molon Labbie
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posted on
08/19/2017 6:32:43 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
To: Vaquero
you are correct! i wonder why they dropped the dazzle?
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posted on
08/19/2017 6:34:43 PM PDT
by
Chode
(You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
To: SERKIT
...dolls eyes.... Like Hillary's.
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posted on
08/19/2017 6:55:03 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: rlmorel
The ships story has become part folklore,
thanks in large part to the chilling monologue in the 1975 film Jaws when fisherman Quint tells about being aboard Indianapolis when it was sunk.
https://news.usni.org/2017/08/19/uss-indianapolis-wreckage-found
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posted on
08/19/2017 7:03:42 PM PDT
by
Does so
(The Enlightened Left openly sacrifices "women and children first" on the altar of multiculturalism..)
To: Does so
Well, it reached a larger audience, but it was your verbatim statement “This would be unknown” that I took issue with.
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posted on
08/19/2017 7:16:08 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Those who sit on the picket fence are impaled by it.)
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